In the past month, you may have noticed individuals running around campus wearing light blue T-shirts with bright red writing emblazoned on the back, bearing a simple request: "Ask me how to vote on November 7th." We, the co-chairs of Princeton Votes 2006 ? Princeton's nonpartisan voter registration and education organization ? hope that by now you have chosen to register to vote and that you are planning on voting on Election Day.Since the founding of P-Votes three years ago, we have registered nearly 1,900 Princeton students, faculty and staff to vote in all 50 states.
On Thursday, the University announced a partnership with Nike to outfit all of Princeton's varsity athletes with the swoosh. Senior Associate Director of Athletics Jaime Zaninovich gushed that not only would the deal equip the University's athletes with gear of the highest quality, but also that Nike would be the "most appropriate partner" for Princeton because of its membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA).Nike is not an appropriate partner for Princeton.
On Wednesday, Oct. 4, demonstrators from two Columbia student groups ? the International Socialist Organization and the Chicano Caucus ? stormed the stage at a College Republicans-sponsored event featuring the founder of the Minuteman Project, a controversial group which patrols the United States-Mexico border for illegal immigrants.
Inquiring into its past is often a good way to find out why something is the curious way it is now.
There are lots of things I will miss about college when I start working next year: Uwe Reinhardt lectures, beirut tournaments and seeing every single person I know walking on Prospect Avenue after meals to name a few.
While talented recruited athletes get the best training that money can buy, the rest of us get club sports ? and at Princeton that does not seem to count for much.
Word around the campfire is that many black '09ers, outside of the usual athletes, intend on bickering Cap & Gown this upcoming spring.
Keep the grade deflation debate goingRegarding 'Lenahan questions basis for grade deflation' (Friday, Oct.
Three Fridays ago, I woke up with no voice. When I tried to speak, I could feel the air stop in my throat.
If you're like me, sitting at your computer and reading the 'Prince' in its online format, you also have immediate access to an infinite array of web-based sources, many of far greater depth than the feeble dilettantism of an undergraduate.I'm not as smart as Tom Friedman.
Today, civil rights discussions rarely focus on the ballot. Most people consider a debate about voting rights an anachronism in 2006, as women and minorities have been enfranchised for many generations now.
It is a non-obvious fact that surveys of Princetonians have revealed and will continue to reveal a dislike of the grade deflation policy.
Nearly four years ago, the University announced a landmark change in its grading policy, decreeing that only 35 percent of the grades given by each department could be in the "A" range.
My first exposure to the gay side of life at Princeton was, ironically, more of a boy-meets-girl story.